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Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer’s assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR.
people posting comments online with their real name, smh
Political comments! For most sites I have two accounts - one for totally uncontroversial stuff with my real name and one where I am free to laugh about a dickhead who thought a few gun deaths being worth it, getting assassinated with a rifle.
This is a weird take for me. Keyboard warriors who hide behind an alias while decrying political violence.
Hiding who you are only lends credence that your views are unacceptable. That database should be so fucking large that it is almost unacceptable not to be in it.
sad to say it because these people absolutely don’t deserve the consequences from a moral point of view, but from a practical point of view this is how mfs learn to value their privacy.
freedom of speech doesn’t protect itself.
I am private about a lot. This is something that I am proud to stand up against. Kirk was a shitty person. We shouldn’t, we cannot, let them intimidate us.
If we want freedom of speech, we cannot afford to hide our words behind anonymity.
freedom of speech is between government and individuals, if i post “Kirk’s death is a good thing” on LinkedIn and bellow me is my employer’s logo, they are free to fire me, since that’s not how they want to be represented
thanks clarence
Thought they hated cancel culture and loved free speech … /s
The irony is tar thick.
🧊🍑 for me, not for thee!
Conservatives are using this as an excuse to purge.
They can do it because they know if the pendulum swings back, there will be absolutely no retribution. Right wing commentators will broadcast their support for political violence and nothing will be done because the left will say “free speech”.
The left is weak.
The center is weak. The left has never had power in this country to be weak or strong with.
Yeah it’s kind of a shame. The centre is obviously mostly right about most things, but nobody really gets fired up about moderate positions. “Legalise euthanasia! But only in certain conditions and with strong safeguards!”, “Ban ICE cars! But we probably are still going to need oil for plastic and aviation fuel.” Yeah probably not going to get many people at my protests.
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I mean technically this place is also social media…
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this is a forum. it’s not social media. if this is social media then every website on the internet is, meaning any law passed on social media is without exception a law passed on the entirety of the internet.
Social media refers to online platforms where users can share information and connect with virtual communities through text, video, photos, and other content.
Just to give you a semblance of how ridiculous of a definition that is (in the current day and age where we’re stating the effects of social media on people’s lives); imagine that you walked up to someone and asked them what their address was, and they answered “Earth”. It’s such a wide ranging answer that conveys absolutely nothing. And now imagine that laws started to be passed stating that “anyone that uses earth must submit to blah blah blah”. People would be up in arms.
Social media is not forums. It is not blogs. It is not comment sections. It is not video streaming sites.
The internet was made up of those things long before social media came around. Stop calling the entire internet social media.
I don’t care what the dictionary says, it’s a pointless definition if that’s the definition. That’s literally every website on the planet. It even includes websites like General Motors blog (that definition you posted comes from a 2010 article written by a business moron who lumped in Wikipedia and General Motors’ blog, in the actually published paper), so yes it’s an incredibly dumb definition. Social media does not mean anywhere you share information and connect through text. THAT’S THE INTERNET!
Hah! I’m self-employed, primarily so I don’t have to work in scummy environments, working my ass off for barely subsistence wages to make some Sociopathic Oligarch even richer.
Now I work my ass off to stay poor, but my conscience is clear, and my soul is clean. Nobody can fire me, but me, although I’ve been tempted at times.
